Corrupted public folder - inaccessable

[jeremys]

Hi,
We have several (100+) public folders, and it appears one of the subfolders has become corrupted somehow. Everytime we try to access this one folder we get the following error message:
"this command is not allowed in this context".

We can't delete it, or move it or anything, even when logged in as an administrator.
One suggestion was to create a profile in Outlook, (as admin), then export the whole of the public folders, afterwhich we delete the whole public folders, and then re-import them all back again !
Now I don't have any qualms about doing it, but it's going to take ages, and I'm not sure it'll fix it !!
It's several gigs worth of data, and is used by several hundred people, so would they need to be off the system, and would it work anyway ?

The guy that normally looks after this stuff is off, so it's down to me

Anyone had this one before ?

[mikethebike]

Jeremy,

I would have a look at the event log to see if you can idetify the problem item (omshowlog). You may need to increase logging levels (omconflvl) to see any useful information.

You could then use omcontain to remove the offending item. I have an old openmail technical note which is a good tutorial on omcontain if you would like it...PM me if you do.

Mick

[polleke]

Why not post that in the wiki so others can benefit aswell